two interviews in France by Naoki Yoshida (English)

[Antipika]

It will be monopolized by bigger shells anyway, that's inevitable, unless each Linkshell have a cooldown (i.e. cannot get the Primal twice in a row).

[irvm89]

Summoner class with Carbuncle being added

I can't wait for this. I hope they do a much better job with SMN this time around than they did in XI. SMN only got much better after Level 70 after they lost their "WHM with different buffs" status. Thankfully, as more content such as additional avatars were released, SMN got better. They're great in Abyssea, I think. Anyway, let's hope SMN start out strong and stay strong throughout their career paths.

I was hoping BST would have also been announced in addition to SMN. Hopefully it will be soon. It makes me wonder if Carbuncle will be restricted to the SMN job or if it will be a class-usable skill. How will that work? Will it just not be as strong than if he were called by a SMN?

One thing I hope they don't bring back from XI... Avatar Perpetuation costs.

Dragoon will not have a pet dragon due to balance concerns

I feel disappointed by this but I can't say I didn't see it coming. lolDRG was a joke for years and it took them that long to balance and adjust DRG to a strong job. The addition of Colibri and Puk leveling spots helped as well. Still, I can understand them not wanting to repeat the same mistake. DRG never had pets in the other Final Fantasy games, but it would have been nice to see XIV's version of Azure again. I'd at least like to see them have Draconic abilities.